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OCEAN ISLE BEACH — Genie Lee looks across the only street leading into this North Carolina town of about 500 people to see an aluminum cross on a stone bearing her son’s name.
The grievous path away from a charred Ocean Isle Beach house has not been easy for those who lost loved ones in the deadly, swift-moving blaze or for those who miraculously escaped the flames.- 9:49 PM
Over the past week, details have emerged about how 13 college students from South Carolina came together last weekend in a quiet beach town just across the North Carolina border.- 10:39 AM
Dawn Anderson leafed through a mountain of photos on her kitchen counter, looking for one with her 19-year-old son Justin’s characteristic baseball cap turned backward over his shaggy blond hair.- 10:45 AM
Travis Cale’s bonds of friendship began in his Greenville neighborhood, sustained him through school and died with him in a North Carolina beach town.- 10:45 AM
USC freshman Lauren Mahon was a vivacious Delta Delta Delta pledge who made friends easily and liked to shop for MAC cosmetics. She also was a standout student, getting more than 1350 on her SAT last year.- 10:45 AM
The saying “they were like brothers” wasn’t quite enough to describe the relationship William and Andrew Rhea shared.- 1:05 PM
She could wear tie-dyed T-shirts one day and pearls the next. Jam to Janis Joplin and Dave Matthews or Britney Spears and rap. Fall right in with a crowd of new friends in the sunny South or return to brighten the lives of her northern compatriots in wintry Ohio.- 10:45 AM
Emily Yelton taught Justin Anderson’s younger brother Matthew to swim, said Justin’s older brother Stephen. It was just one of many signs of the bonds between the Anderson and Yelton families in Greenville’s Spaulding Farms neighborhood.- 10:45 AM
In the student parking lot of Fort Dorchester High School on Friday, white-lettered words covered windshields of several cars. “Rest in peace.”- 10:45 AM
President George W. Bush, who is visiting Columbia today, said he and First Lady Laura Bush are concerned about the families who lost loved ones in the fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., this week.- 1:42 PM
As the sun set over the University of South Carolina campus Monday, candles held by students illuminated a somber scene. Six black wreaths adorned with garnet bows stood in a semi-circle, flanking a single, purple wreath with a white ribbon and an orange rose.- 11:49 AM
USC president Andrew Sorensen quoted a famous verse — “no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent” — from 16th-century Anglican priest and poet John Donne:- 12:53 PM
CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — More than 600 people crowded a suburban Cleveland church Saturday to remember one of seven college students killed in a North Carolina beach house fire last weekend, a church minister said.- 12:08 AM
USC freshman Lauren Astrid Kristiana Mahon was "a rock star without a band," according to her friend Andy Evans.- 1:43 PM
CLEMSON — Surrounded by eight friends, Meredith Yelton stood in front of hundreds of college students and read a letter to her twin sister, Emily.- 1:44 PM
GREENVILLE — Travis Cale’s plain oak casket rested along the shore of Round Pond, a tranquil place where he, his family and his closest friends lounged, laughed and loved.- 12:08 AM
Shannon McDaniel was intimidated and scared when she transferred in her junior year to a new school, J.L. Mann Academy in Greenville County.- 10:52 AM
Dale McNair wasn’t sure how she got herself to Columbia on Tuesday, but by noon she was standing silently before USC’s makeshift memorial to the seven victims of a weekend fire.- 10:15 AM
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